‘WEIRD’ AND HAD IDEAS ON KID SEX
NEW EVIDENCE suggests Sandy Hook monster Adam Lanza might have had an interest in pedophilia and did “methodical planning” for a year ahead of his deadly 2012 attack, according to FBI documents.
There was no proof in the more than 1,500 pages released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that Lanza acted on any pedophilia urges, investigators said.
But he did say that adult-child sexual relationships might be “possibly beneficial to both parties,” according to an unidentified woman who told the FBI she had an “online relationship” with Lanza for years before the Dec. 14, 2012, slaughter.
The FBI unsealed its documents Tuesday, a few weeks ahead of the fifth anniversary of the killing spree that left 20 firstgraders and six educators dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“The weirdest person online,” the unidentified woman said in an FBI interview.
She recalled Lanza using screen names paying homage to a pair of school shooters: German gunman Tim Kretschmer and Canadian killer Kimveer Gill.
“He was singularly focused and obsessed with mass murders . . . Lanza devoted almost all his internet activity to researching and discussing mass murders and spree killings,” read an FBI summary of the December 2012 interview.
“Lanza spoke about school killings and those who committed them with respect and understanding.”
The woman described Lanza as depressed and cynical, with a very negative view of life. Other documents revealed Lanza had become a recluse, with his weight dropping to 85 pounds, in the three months before he descended on Sandy Hook Elementary.
When the woman learned Lanza was responsible for the mass shooting, she realized he was “more f---ed up than I thought,” she told the FBI agents.
Evidence also suggested Lanza, 20, began plotting his attack as early as March 2011.
“The shooter did not ‘snap,’ but instead engaged in careful, methodical planning and preparation,” the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit wrote.
“The shooter was fascinated with past shootings and researched them thoroughly. The shooter shared many similar characteristics and behaviors with other active shooters.”
The FBI also found a file on Lanza’s computer “advocating pedophiles’ rights and the liberation of children,” along with a screenplay describing a relationship between a 10-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man.
The unidentified woman said she met Lanza on a website devoted to the 1999 Columbine High School mass murder.
Another document recounted how Lanza turned tail when two law enforcement officers finally entered the blood-spattered school, running to a classroom where he committed suicide rather than take on the authorities.
Neighbors reported seeing nothing unusual in the Lanza home on Yogananda St. in the days before the rampage.
But by then Lanza had become a shut-in, locked inside his room with little, if any, connection with the outside world.
Lanza focused on Japanese techno music and video games like “Super Mario Brothers.”
A family friend told the FBI that Nancy Lanza was so concerned about her son that she planned a cross-country move to Seattle in the spring of 2013.
Another report documented a man’s claim that four years before the killings, Lanza had threatened to murder his mother and attack his old grammar school.
“Lanza hated his mother and Sandy Hook, because his mother had worked there,” read an FBI summary. “Lanza apparently felt his mother loved the students more than she loved him.”
It was unclear from the documents if the man’s claim was ever verified.
One document recounted an FBI visit to the Lanza home after the then-ninth-grader hacked into a government computer.
“The authorities told her that if her son was that smart, he could have a job with them someday,” according to one of the heavily redacted reports released without warning Tuesday.
Lanza landed on investigators’ radar after hacking his way into an unidentified agency’s computer. The teen made it through two levels of security before his efforts were thwarted, the documents showed.
“Nancy had to convince the authorities that her son was just very intelligent and was challenging himself to see if he could hack (his way in),” the report said.